Gustav wrote the chronicle that is the source of most of the information about this family. He was a teacher and organist who served at several places, including Doebern and Friedheim in Wirsitz, and was also in the military.

B. Marie Straumann
- born 16 January 1896
- died 21 August 1964.
- married Fred A. Gliffe
- born 1883 d. 1930 Chicago, Ill. They had two daughters.

C. Carl E. Straumann
- born 8 May 1898
- died 5 November 1968
- married Elsa Behrens b. 1908. They had three children.

D. Clara Straumann
- born 31 January 1908
- died 4 September 1997 Central City, Kentucky.
- married 29 Sep 1928 Chicago, Illinois.Walter Dieball
- born 2 March 1907
- died 22 May 1994. They had three children.
Clara typed the English translation of the Schurdel chronicle.

Theodor arrived in the U.S., 27 May 1883 on the German ship America, traveling with Ernstina Beyer Alszewski Radke, wife of his uncle Gustav Radke, and Ernstina's daughter Anna. He lived with a Proehl family in Augusta, Wisconsin, where he as confirmed in 1885. He graduated from the St. Louis, Mo., seminary in 1894, served 1 year in Connecticut in a mission. Served St. Peter's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Tower Grove area; 1901 moved to St. Paul's, Indianapolis, then served daughter congregation, Emmaus. In 1911, he went to Zion, Cleveland; served there till his death.

B. Otto Ernest Schurdel
- born 26 May 1898, St. Louis, Missouri
- died December 1974, Cleveland, Ohio.
- married 1927 Helen Kocian, stenographer
- born 15 November 1902, in Ohio
- died 19 August 2005, Cleveland, Ohio
After attending Fort Wayne Concordia College, he transferred to law school at Western Reserve in Cleveland; worked as an attorney in Cleveland. No children.

D. Arthur Gustav Schurdel
- born 6 September 1902, Indianapolis, Indiana
- died 25 November 1957, Indianapolis, Indiana
- married 1 June 1927Lucille Jones
- born 10 January 1904, Cleveland, Ohio
- died 22 August 2003, while living in Florida
They had two children.

E. Walter Eugene Schurdel
- born 8 June 1904, Indianapolis, Indiana
- died 3 March 1969
- married (1) 4 October 1927, Peg Binbeutel. Divorced.
- married (2) Margaret Salisbury,
- born 10 April 1921,
- died March 1994, while residing in Florida
They had two children.

A. Edeltraut Schurdel,
- b. 28 Aug 1918 Friedheim, Wirsitz, Posen
- d. 13 Apr 2003, Hamburg, Germany
Had one son with Harold Peter Bauchais b. 31 May 1910
Edel was a ballerina before WWII, then served as an interpreter. In 1945 she fled with her parents to West Germany.

Anna Schurdel, a dressmaker. She married and had a son and a daughter, Mrs. Katie Klatt, who had 4 children. I haven't yet found her birth/baptism date, so I don't know where she fits in the order of the children.